Ingram, who rushed for a career high 1,200 yards and scored 12 touchdowns, as the Saints won the NFC South in 2017, will be forced to sit the first four games of the 2018 season. This includes their home opener with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at the Superdome on September 9th.

Then, as news leaked of the suspension in the afternoon, a “dust up” on social media ensued between a former Saint and a former Buccaneer, who went head to head against each other on the field in the early to mid-2000’s.

First, Dulymus “Deuce” McAllister, a former very popular New Orleans running back for his entire eight year career (’01-08), predictably came to Ingram’s defense:

And Becht, who’s a now a game analyst on ESPN for College Football, as well as working on Bucs radio pre and post game coverage in Tampa, “slapped back:”

I brought several products to teams over my career…..all of them checked out..BUT the team never guarantees any of that… it’s on the player to make that choice… I chose not to… so I guess your right.. I did know better than that https://t.co/DmRpDOHtU5

Becht is correct and is quoting from the NFL policies on PED’s, which clearly spell out that the player is ultimately responsible for what they take, regardless if it used to not have a banned substance in it or not. If you take it, you are responsible. Becht further gave insight on another aspect of the policy that you can take your supplements and enhancers to a team for them/the NFL to test, but ultimately that’s not a guarantee that you won’t test positive, either.

Back to McAllister. He does have a different view point because in December 2008, he and his teammates Charles Grant and the late Will Smith, all three were given their four game suspensions for taking the same weight loss drug that had banned substance.

Later in 2009, two Minnesota Vikings, Kevin and Pat Williams, who are not related, also tested positive for the same weight loss drug. Those players argued for themselves, and for the Saints players, etc. that the NFL had approved the drug and further in the Vikings case, that the NFL knew that later tests showed the banned substance, but didn’t tell the NFLPA or the players to stay away from it in the future.

Again, back to McAllister, he never played again in the NFL after being banned in December of 2008. He is now retired and doing some radio work with the Saints broadcasts and some local television as an analyst, too.

And, ultimately, in his and the others’ case, the NFL was vindicated that player’s are responsible, for what they take, which was Becht’s point Tuesday on social media.

As of Wednesday morning, McAllister and Becht had “ceased fire” on Twitter.

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